{"id":3765,"date":"2023-06-09T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:21:53","slug":"third-party-presidential-candidate-cornel-west-rips-mediocre-milk-toast-biden-get-off-the-crack-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3765","title":{"rendered":"Third-party presidential candidate Cornel West rips \u2018mediocre, milk toast\u2019 Biden: \u2018Get off the crack pipe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-52.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3766\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-52.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-52.png 931w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-52-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-52-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-52-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-52-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cornel West, a progressive activist and third-party candidate for president, ripped President Biden during his first interview since announcing his run for the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People\u2019s Party presidential candidate Cornel West, a progressive activist, went after&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\">President Biden<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday, referring to him as \u201cmediocre\u201d and \u201cmilquetoast\u201d in his first interview since announcing his long-shot third-party run for the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appearing on KBLA\u2019s Tavis Smiley podcast, West pushed back on the notion his candidacy was potentially \u201cpulling votes away from Biden\u201d and laid into the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/democratic-party\">Democratic Party<\/a>&nbsp;for its candidate choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen somebody chooses to vote for you, you\u2019re not pulling votes away. You see, Biden doesn\u2019t own any votes. He\u2019s got to earn it. He\u2019s got to earn it,\u201d West said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the Democrats are putting out mediocre, milquetoast, neoliberal politicians who can\u2019t say a mumbling word about militarism, can\u2019t say a mumbling word about a serious response to poverty, can\u2019t say a mumbling word about serious White supremacist practices \u2014 I mean, Biden himself said America is not a racist society. I said, \u2018Get off the crack pipe,\u2019\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West was referring to a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-responds-tim-scott-gop-rebuttal-speech-i-dont-think-the-american-people-are-racist\">2021 speech<\/a>&nbsp;in which Biden said he didn\u2019t think America was a racist nation, but said that slavery and former Jim Crow laws \u201chad a cost\u201d on the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West went on to blast Biden for not supporting a full-scale end to the Senate filibuster, although the president has&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-support-ending-filibuster-protect-abortion-access\">supported a carveout<\/a>&nbsp;of the rule in order to pass legislation on abortion and voting rights. He then blamed Democrats for creating the space that he said made his candidacy necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf they produced a candidate that spoke to the needs of precious poor and working-class folk, they wouldn\u2019t have me. They wouldn\u2019t have to deal with that,\u201d West said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got a corporate wing of the Democratic Party that does not treat the progressive wing right. It\u2019s shown over and over again.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know, I supported Bernie [Sanders] twice. I supported Biden the last time. I did because I thought that Trump\u2019s fascism was such that we had to fight. Does that mean that we\u2019re choosing between a neo-fascist catastrophe and a neoliberal disaster? That every Democratic president can say, \u2018I\u2019m not almighty, but I am the alternative. You all have no other choice to vote for me.\u2019 And then when he gets in there, he wouldn\u2019t be in there if it wasn\u2019t for Black folks, especially Black women,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West announced his candidacy for the presidency in a Monday video posted&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/twitter\">on Twitter<\/a>. In the video, he took swings at both Democrats and Republicans and declared that he was running for \u201ctruth and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe presidency is just one vehicle to pursue the truth and justice I\u2019ve been trying to do all my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/third-party-presidential-candidate-cornel-west-rips-mediocre-milk-toast-biden-get-off-the-crack-pipe\/\">https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/third-party-presidential-candidate-cornel-west-rips-mediocre-milk-toast-biden-get-off-the-crack-pipe\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/target-slammed-with-more-bad-news-after-consumer-outrage-boycott\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornel West, a progressive activist and third-party candidate for president, ripped President Biden during his first interview since announcing his run for the White House. People\u2019s Party presidential candidate Cornel West, a progressive activist, went after&nbsp;President Biden&nbsp;Thursday, referring to him as \u201cmediocre\u201d and \u201cmilquetoast\u201d in his first interview since announcing his long-shot third-party run for the White House. Appearing on KBLA\u2019s Tavis Smiley podcast, West pushed back on the notion his candidacy was potentially \u201cpulling votes away from Biden\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}